Bio-Ken Tour 2015 kicks off in a week today. Upcountry Kenya here we come with our live snakes in tow. So far 10 out of 16 days full up with a minimum of 2 talks a day! Voi, Mtito, Lewa, Nanyuki, Timau, Nairobi, Soysambu, Gilgil, Naivasha, Limuru here we come. SMS 0718 290 324 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more info!

Final preparations are being made before our tour kicks off next week! Poster out, cages clean, snakes fed and venues booked. Royjan and Charlie in late night briefing and #‎MamaMary ready to go. All funds raised will go to #‎JAAT antivenomtrust.com Here they come!

The New Year began on a positive note with a trip into the Arabuko Sokoke forest to release a 65 reptiles from Bio-Ken Snake Farm.

Thanks to to the Kenya Wildlife Service Warden of Arabuko Sokoke, who kindly agreed to Bio-Ken’s request to release the reptiles that had either been born at the farm, or had been relocated having been removed from various locations around Watamu and Malindi.

Video of the Bio-Ken team saving a python and relocating it deep in the forest.

This Coast Python was found close to a forestry station in April 2013, and would likely have been killed had the KWS not alerted Bio-Ken. Thankfully we were called to the scene, where we captured the python, and relocated it in a remote part of the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest.

While working on plans for the Snakebite Seminar (which is being held in Watamu this Saturday) we got a call from our Farm Foreman, Boniface reporting that a lady had called Bio-Ken to say that she had two snakes in her kitchen. Anna Karimi, who runs a small farm in Mijomboni, had recently visited Bio-Ken Snake Farm in Watamu and took note of our SAVING SNAKES initiative. She decided not to kill the snakes and rather called us to catch and remove them.

A recent news clip aired on local Kenyan TV and uploaded to You Tube (shown below) shows a harmless Speckled Sand Snake being killed.

I can’t believe that in 2012 this is the situation on the ground in Kenya. A harmless snake (the Speckled Sand Snake Psammophis punctulatus) was butchered unnecessarily on TV. It wasn’t even in a house or compound…it was sitting up high in a tree and it was brought down and killed.